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Refugees – 2009

In October 2009, an estimated 1,000 residents fled after fighting occurred in their villages in the Guinea-Bissau border region.¹ Many of the people displaced started to return to their homes a few days after the clashes ended.²

1. “Increased violence in Senegal forces 1,000 residents to flee,” Voice of America News, October 5, 2009.
2. “Confronting aid challenges in volatile Casamance, Integrated Regional Information Networks,” IRIN AFRICA, October 19, 2009.